Daydreaming today & had a thought... sign Ricky long-term, trade Hart, & groom Lawrie in the OF?

Evidently, the strike zone tonight is like the Big Bang Theory... it's continuously expanding.

Both those pitches were outside even by Greg Maddux standards, yet Gorman guesses they're good enough. Honestly, you can't be a partly-competent umpire and still think those pitches caught any of the plate... unless the plate is the size of the Northern Hemiphere.

Laziness, writ large.

As Al would say, "the worst they've ever been... until tomorrow".

Y'now how teachers continue they're schooling even while they're already teaching? Maybe some additional training would help this. They have umpiring schools, why not send them back for some basic training. Instead, MLB leaves them out there to continually embarass the profession and the game, living on their little island.

You would think with the multiple camera angles & video replays, umpires would WANT to hone their profession and allow the camera's to prove how well they're doing.

Now, as my father would say, "piss poor".